Around the world, young people are participating in large numbers in demonstrations for climate justice. This generation is challenging the general public with the question of how to deal with the climate crisis. Schools and other institutions of music education are places where generations intersect and can no longer avoid facing this issue. How can music education be (re)designed in view of the global crisis? And how can musical creativity in particular enable us to experience these existential issues in a new way, promote “design thinking” as a creative competence, and thus become part of the solution, not the problem?